Studio Trigger and a badass cover, I'd bet after that you'd only expect to hear that the main character is comprised of a single frame. When reminding youself this is an ONA, things make a bit more sense. The budget is just about nonexistent with Inferno Cop, and all of the characters generally also only have a single frame which is tilted for motion. There are some basic effects here and there, and plenty of copy-paste explosions. The backgrounds tend to be real-life pictures put through a filter, sometimes with some basic alterations. If a non-comical cool factor is what you're looking for, sadly you'll have to look elsewhere. However, the main character of Inferno Cop's single frame definitely looks cool, and I bet a swarm of people praise him.
This is in no way a serious ONA, but still the sound design wasn't too impactful. What could be heard of the music was decent, but it's possible there are some good tracks in there. The constant voices drown out the music a bit to make it hard to focus on it while also reading the subtitles, but the main theme can certainly be catchy. The sound effects did the job, but were likely ripped from freesounds.org and copy-pasted about.
The technical stuff should be known if one is cautious before entering, but once the style of Inferno Cop is known, that isn't all too relevant to its goals. Inferno Cop is an odd and random journey featuring a Ghost Rider-like character carrying the title's name. The journey basically consists of randomly generated situations and twists. The story is quickly drawn aside from seriousness, but is still one of the strongest entertainment factors here. That should be expected as Inferno Cop throws everything into their imagination keeping interest since their budget is minimal. In a way, Inferno Cop does carry out that goal fairly well.
An issue that arose for me wasn't as much that the humor was stale, but more that Inferno Cop was too long. I'm sure there are people that wish it was even longer and are a fan of the idea, but this type of humor doesn't work as well when it has restricted elements in each new addition/episode. It is blatantly clear that, solo artist, Takashi TaniGuchi was a motivator to Inferno Cop. The humor is identical, but there is a difference. While Takashi TaniGuchi had a bit more work put into some of his pieces that made them feel a bit less restricted visually, the real differing factor between his works and Inferno Cop is the originality and disconnection of each skit. The characters of the last skit are thrown out entirely and a new completely-random situation is generated. When there is a consistent factor in over a dozen pieces, things begin to drag much sooner. Inferno Cop himself isn't a bad character, but the choice of having the length go for thirteen episodes did weaken the effect.
I'm not one to dislike this type of humor and I did find some of Inferno Cop funny, but Takashi TaniGuchi does most of it better by making the humor more awkward and bizarre. Inferno Cop is too basic by not taking things to even further degrees of strange. That is another aspect of Inferno Cop that fails to make things effective. If you really want to see solid comparisons, watch "Mr. Ando of the Woods" and "Mr. Stomach". A live-action movie, "Funky Forest" also carries what seems to be much of that humor to a further degree, but I haven't seen most of it.
Inferno Cop is a bunch of shorts that carry some wild humor that doesn't connect into solid jokes. The humor is driven by the randomness and inconsistencies of basically everything about it. Someone new to this style of humor may enjoy Inferno Cop a lot, but those used to it may find it a tad bland. For those expecting anything being served through the visuals, drop those expectations immediately. This isn't a serious ONA, and Studio Trigger didn't take it seriously like-wise. In-fact, just by me reviewing this seriously I'll likely be shamed, but the truth must and has to be told. Don't watch Inferno Cop in one siting to make it drag less. Also, I recommend Takashi TaniGuchi's works more - but they won't increase your time watched since MAL won't accept them (I tried). In the end, though, it's nice to see that Studio Trigger has some unique creativity.
